Trappist, n.1 (a.)
(ˈtræpɪst)
[ad. F. trappiste, from La Trappe, name of the convent: see below.]
1. a. A monk of the branch of the Cistercian order observing the reformed rule established in 1664 by De Rancé, abbot of La Trappe, in Normandy.
| 1814 in Brackenridge Views Louisiana 288 To make the highest virtue to consist in silence, was reserved for the Trappists. 1870 Rogers Hist. Gleanings II. 24 The..most frivolous profligates have often become the most rigid..Trappists and Carthusians. |
b. attrib. or as adj. Of or pertaining to this branch of the Cistercian order.
| 1836 Ld. Shrewsbury in E. Purcell Life A. P. de Lisle (1900) I. iv. 69, I..wish..to see a religious establishment on the premises; but I fancy we might have a much more useful one than a Trappist monastery. 1837 J. Binns Miseries & Beauties of Ireland II. xiii. 298 The superintendant of the Trappist Settlement at Mount Melleray. 1847 Bunsen Ch. of Future App. 307 The Count purchased the old Trappist Monastery. 1860 All the Year Round No. 74. 560 He intended to enter a Trappist convent. 1871 Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 28 The Trappist theory of the conditions of virtue. |
2. transf. A puff-bird of the genus Monacha, having inky-black plumage with white about the head; a nun-bird.
| 1891 in Cent. Dict. |